HorthyMiklosKatonaja
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HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8d ago
Recreational use and sale of marijuana was legalized before Youngkin took office, but he refused categorically to take any steps to establish any mechanism for legal sale.
I, for one, am kind of salty about that; I had visited Denver in previous years, enjoyed my share of legally purchased edibles and was really looking forward to being able to get them at a local mall.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
7d ago
And Americanization programs in public school systems.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
8d ago
There was a period of several years where you never saw "Iran" in the news without it being followed by "-Contra."
There's one local example that sticks in my mind, even after all these years. Back in 1982, there was a rabies epidemic. For months, almost every day on the front page of the Fairfax Journal, there were stories about rabid animals (it was almost always raccoons for some reason) being found and euthanized.
Then a while later I realized I wasn't seeing those anymore.
But there was never any announcement of an end to the epidemic. For all I know, it might still be going on!
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
14d ago
Or clone DNA from extinct animals. I'm kind of curious on whether Hallucigenia tastes like shrimp.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
15d ago
It was for quite a range of occupations IIRC.
I know they did bring in some Cubans and even Vietnamese, but that may have been for propaganda value and "proletarian internationalism" points. Don't think they ever had Poles or Romanians.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
2d ago
Personally, I'm not interested in philosophical musings, anything about AI, or ratsphere inside-baseball (isuch as anything about Aella), all of which make up a substantial number of each week's postings. I'd love to see more focus on current events to balance the Washington Post and Reddit shoving the woke perspective down people's throats.
HorthyMiklosKatonaja
15d ago
East Germany had something like this. Because of its unique situation with continued flight to the West, many factories and other businesses were constantly begging for employees.
But simply having too many cultures, too many languages, religions, ethnicities in a country (to the point they, put together, outnumber the former dominant group) is bound to make it weaker, IMO, because there will no longer be a consensus on values. There will no longer be anything to hold the country together and it will essentially cease to be a nation in any real sense at all. Every group will have its own shibboleths and taboos which it will lobby its political representatives to codify in law - which will probably get shot down except in all-Muslim (or whatever) towns, but the time and energy wasted on this stuff is time and energy which cannot be used to work on the nation's real problems.
I, for one, would rather euthanize myself than live in such a corpse of a country.
(This situation, multiplied by a million, is also why I firmly believe that no world government can ever work.)
...because anyone who doesn't publically "support diversity" is shamed, made a pariah and possibly fired.
Observe the posts in subreddits for individual cities, inquiring about neighborhoods to live in. Every one is looking for a "diverse" area.
Try posting that you want to live in a white neighborhood, and see how quickly you get banned for "bigotry" or "hate speech", with a mod note referring to you as "scum" or some similar endearment.
Wasn't something like that the canonical origin of Night City, of Cyberpunk fame?
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